'Smile Time'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Never thought I could feel so free.
Following the theme to William Katz's career (why do I know his name? Some things are just mysteries.):
why do I know his name?
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
I think it's Katt, though.
Of course, thanks to Seinfeld, I've mostly heard that lately as machine-music "Believe it or not/We're not home!" In a tangentially related topic, the more I hear the soul song "Money", the weirder it is that the first place I heard the opening bars was in a car commercial. Whoever pitched it didn't know that song at all because "mean, mean green" and women "selling their precious bodies" oughtn't to sell...Sportscars? ETA: When I was a kid, I watched that show a lot, Corwood. Oh, in relatively huge genre-busting news, "Deadwood" is on my watch list now. I thought you'd wanna know that.
"Theme from 'The Greatest American Hero'" is now inseperable in my brain from George's answering machine on Seinfeld.
Piero Umiliani - "Mah-Na-Mah-Na"At the ballgame Friday night the Cake version of this song comes on. Great-grandmother in the row in front of us looks up at me and says, "Muppets?" I nod. She's overjoyed, being that she doesn't know 99% of the stuff the play at Safeco.
And then I went and completely bombed on music trivia. It was some rap-dance song from 1995 I'd never heard before in my life by some one-named artist. I can excuse myself if it's some rap-dance song from 2002, but 1995 I should know.
In a tangentially related topic, the more I hear the soul song "Money", the weirder it is that the first place I heard the opening bars was in a car commercial. Whoever pitched it didn't know that song at all because "mean, mean green" and women "selling their precious bodies" oughtn't to sell...Sportscars?
Probably the same person who sold Royal Carribean on "Lust For Life."
Next up, a commerical with a high-testosterone high-heterosexual muscle car to the tune of the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love."
Great-grandmother in the row in front of us looks up at me and says, "Muppets?" I nod. She's overjoyed, being that she doesn't know 99% of the stuff the play at Safeco.
The correct question actually is, "Swedish Porn film?" because that's where it came from originally.
It was some rap-dance song from 1995 I'd never heard before in my life by some one-named artist. I can excuse myself if it's some rap-dance song from 2002, but 1995 I should know.
You should have had Jesse there. She can sing along to every R&B hit of the last 30 years.
Probably the same person who sold Royal Carribean on "Lust For Life."
"Here comes Johnny Yin again / with his liquor and drugs / and his shuffleboard..."
Speaking of Cake, this was forwarded to me:
Greetings CAKE Listener,
Over the years we at CAKE have received in the mail some very interesting recordings of our songs, performed by musicians from myriad corners of the globe, walks of life, and aesthetic orientations. Because some of these renditions were unrelentingly strange and/or excellent, we have decided to put together a CD collection of our favorites. We currently still have room in this collection for a few more songs, so if you or someone you know does an interesting CAKE cover, by all means send us a copy of it ASAP. If it is strange and/or excellent enough it may end up on the album. Send all nonreturnable CD recordings to: Esther Creative Group, 59 West 19th Street, Suite 4B, New York, NY 10011.
So they are releasing their own tribute CD. huh.
I know a lot of them, but my favorites are called old-school now. Me and Derek Strange. Except for the Western soundtracks. Don't think I'll ever get that.
Ramones - "Indian Giver"
Please tell me this isn't a cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. song. Because I can't wrap my mind around that concept.